Maurice Oscar Byrd v. William Armontrout, Warden of Missouri State Penitentiary

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · Decided 1989-09-06

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BOWMAN, Circuit Judge. Maurice Oscar Byrd appeals the District Court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm. In 1982, Byrd was convicted in a state trial court of four counts of capital murder. The murders were committed in connection with a robbery at Pope’s Cafeteria in th…

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